Jon DeRosa

Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jon DeRosa has made several forms of mysterious, darkly atmospheric music since the 1990s, from indie rock and folk to ambient and drone. First drawing attention with his gothic folk band Dead Leaves Rising, he also made dark country as part of the duo Pale Horse and Rider, and his long-running project Aarktica has explored guitar-based instrumental soundscapes, dream pop, and ethereal folk, with jazz and Indian classical influences. DeRosa's solo albums under his own name, A Wolf in Preacher's Clothes (2012) and Black Hal...